Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

dotes. He had tried to kill himself once
before.
FIRE broke out on the evening of the
oath in the Gould & Curry mine at Vir-
ginia City, New. All the miners escaped.
with the exception Of six, employed on the
!, 1,5O0-foot level Of the Best and Belcher
mine. Signals from them had ceased
ana 1t was feared they had perished.
Z JOSEPH B. WIswELL, cashier of the Bank
OF America, of Philadelphia, was stru ck
by train on the Philadelphia 4 Reading
railroad at Wayne junction, Pa, on the
24th, and sustained injuries which ter
minated fatally half an hour later.
BY order of the court Jacob Sharpe, the
New York boodler now on trial, u i'll here
after be kept in close custody.
Mr.. PARNELL is said to be suffering from
cancer of the stomach.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS is taking
steps to cancel large mum ber of fraudu-
lent land entries in Wyoming
A VIGOROUS war has been lnaugurated
in Montreal, Can, on the bucket-shop in
dustry.
GENERAL JAMES SPEED, who was Attor-
ney-General under President Lincoln,
died on the 25th at his home near Louis
vile, KY.
EAST SIDE elevated railways in New
York have been enjoined by the Superior
Court from operating their lines in front
Of certain properties.
\ Hon JAMES G. BLAINE visited the Amer
ican Exposition at London on the 25th
and was given a most cordial and hearty
reception.
AT the close Of the week ended the 25th
the Detroits were still leading in the
League base ball series, with Boston a
good second and Chicago up to third
place. In the Association race the st
Louis Browns were still ahead, with Bal
timore, however, crawling up sufficiently
close to make the champions attend stri. t.
ly to business.
A CLASH of Canadian and local author
ity is anticipated in Manitoba when con-
struction operations are begun on the
railroad from Winnipeg to the United
States boundary.
MRS. LECKIE, wife of Presbyterian
clergyman at Airth, Scotland, in fit of
porary insanity on the 25th, cut the
throats of her three children and then her
own.
A BRoN zE equestrian statue of General
Burnside is to be unvailed at Providence,
r. l., on July 4. 1t stands fifteen feet
high and weighs $500 pounds, and will
rest on a pedes tai sixteen feet high.
LATEST advices in relation to the Crown
Prince of Germany lead to the belief that
his aItim recssefs from his tisrnat
trouble Is certain.
TIE man in custody at Salem, Ore,
supposed to be Bryant B. Crandal, who
was reported to have committed suicide
at Niagara Falls, turns out to be another
man entirely. Somebody hit a mares
nest.
GOVERNOR HILL of New York has vetoed
the bill imposing a tax upon "bucket-
shops''
THE Mono County (Nev.) marble quarry,
sixty miles from Carson, was completely
destroyed by recent earthquake and the
marble broken up in cubes not over foot
square.
The boiler Of the Standard Oil refinery
at Lima, o., exploded on the afternoon OF
the 25th, wrecking the building and kill
ing the engineer, Levi Meyers. Six other
workmen were injured, some fatally.
john KELLEY, lad Of seventeen, fell
into vat of boiling water at Sinclair's
packing house, in Cedar Rapids, Ia, on
the 25th, and was fatally scaled.
JoHN THOMAS Ross was sentenced to
death at Baltimore, Md, on the 25th, for
the murder of Emily Brown, whose body
was sold by him to the Medical Uni
versity.
In tenement-house fire in London, on
the Goth, several persons were burned to
death or were killed by jumping from the
burning building.
CROWDS of royal pers onages were pres
ent at the jubilee service in st. Georges
chapel, Windsor, on the night of the Goth.
Nearly all the members of the royal fami-
ly attended. The Queen was not present.
DURING squall at Philadelphia, on the
Goth, small sail-boat was caps lied in the
Delaware. Edward Fisher and John
Schaeffer were drowned. There were
several narrow escapes.
THERE were four new cases of fever re-
ported at Key West on the Goth, but no
deaths The record to date was: Total
cases, 40; total deaths, 1S; sick at date,
ID; discharged cured, 10.
BROOKLYN has a dead woman mystery
a floating body found with both legs cut
off
TIE people rested and the defense
opened in the Sharpe trial at New y ork
on the 9th.
on Turkeys appeal, England has post
poned ratification of the Egyptian treaty
inde fnitely
JOHN MCkENNA tried to keep man at
New York from committing suicide on
the 27th, and got badly stabbed for his
pains.
MISS SARAH E. ALDRIDGE, Of Jefferson,
Ind, was killed on the 27th in the pres
ence of her lover-whether suicide or
murder is not known.
Two of the Queens grandsons, Prince
George and Prince Albert Victor, started
on the 27th for Dublin to represent her in
the Jubilee ceremonies on the 2Sth.
ADELBERT BRANNICK and Maggie Nc.
Goolow, lovers, were found at New York
on the q, with their throats cut. They
each accuse the other of the crime.
THE French Chamber OF Deputies, on
the 9th, rejected a proposition that the
Senate be elected by universal suffrage.
TEN land attorneys at Garden City,
Kas.. have been reported to Washington
for disbarment on the ground OF fraudu-
lent practices in land matters.
The coin collection of the late John l.
the actor, was sold at auction
in New York on the eth. The prices OBJ
tanned were unsatisfactory. The quin-
tuple eagle or ''slug," which Raymond
used to match" with, brought only sixty
six dollars. and other rare coins equally